Word Finder - comparisons

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The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.

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to bring a thing into comparison with another;  there is no comparison between them

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An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other.

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He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything.

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With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.

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There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago.

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(grammar) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest.

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That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.

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A simile.

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The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation.

It is only by careful investigation, by the method of comparisons, that these elements can be disentangled; but as the number of documents of this class known to us is continually increasing, their value increases even more than proportionately.

Experimental methods were devised for the further exact measurements of the electromagnetic velocity and numerous determinations of the dielectric constants of various solids, liquids and gases, and comparisons of these with the corresponding optical refractive indices were conducted.

The number injured is, indeed, a fact of interest, no less than the number killed, but comparisons under this head are unsatisfactory because it is impracticable or unprofitable to go into sufficient detail to determine the relative seriousness of the injuries.

In embryology the method finds its expression in the limitation of comparisons to the corresponding stages of low and high forms and the exclusion of the comparisons between the adult stages of low forms and the embryonic stages of higher forms.

Masterman's more detailed comparisons have for the most part been rejected by other morphologists.

It will also identify comparisons with citizen engagement in politics.

A few words remain to be said on the style and general character of the Homeric poems, and on the comparisons which may be made between Homer and analogous poetry in other countries.

Theology might draw subtle distinctions between different forms of devotion; but, tried by the comparisons of the anthropologist, the monotheism even of historical Christianity cannot be strictly maintained.

Certainly the excellent seneschal has not stinted himself of comparisons here, yet they can hardly be said to be luminous.

The Australian and English languages each consist mainly of a series of words having no apparent connexion with the ideas they signify, and differing utterly; of course, accidental coincidences and borrowed words must be excluded from such comparisons.

In making such comparisons, it is always desirable, if possible, to select as standards longperiod gauges which are so situated that the short-period district lies.

The principle of reason and consequent, the necessity of thinking each given fact of perception as conditioned, impels understanding towards an endless series of identical propositions, the records of successive comparisons and abstractions.

In accurate comparisons, therefore, it is necessary that the coils to be compared should be immersed in melting ice, and that sufficient time should be allowed to elapse between the measurements for the heat generated in the coil to be removed.

However, academics are concerned that the data are not yet sufficiently accurate to make value-added comparisons.

Comparisons were also carried out with subsets of private schools categorized by sectarian affiliation.

In addition, finding relevant benchmarking measures that make meaningful comparisons between providers or suppliers can be hard to achieve.

Year-on-year comparisons could be made for 31 directors and 19 got a pay rise last year.

When making indirect comparisons within a systematic rev.. .

But any such comparisons are very superficial and very glib.

Contrastive linguistics involves comparisons between two or more individual languages, which may or may not be historically related.

String comparisons are performed using a collator, instantiated on the specified locale, at the default strength for that locale.

Yet he makes some startlingly astute observations during discussion despite his penchant for drawing comparisons with science fiction.

You will also conduct comparisons between the numerical models and satellite observations of flows around sunspots and coronal activity above active regions.

Yes, I suppose the these comparisons can get rather odious, or as you say " redundant " .

Differences in opioid sensitivity need to be assessed in efficacy comparisons of changing opioid or route of administration in chronic pain.

All the controls were active comparisons, tho these included potato peelings and amniotic membrane as well as conventional treatments.

Evidence that the phylogeny inferred from protein and DNA sequence comparisons is correlated with the phylogeny inferred from evolutionary biology.

Follow the method formerly prescribed by pregnant reasons, apt similitudes, forcible comparisons, and by holy colloquies and soliloquies.

But the cost of living is much lower in Africa, making such comparisons somewhat spurious.

Differences not only in the size of towns, but in the arrangement and char - acter of the population, make each district a telephone problem b3, itself, and nullify close comparisons between telephone rates and telephone efficiencies in different areas and different countries.

In the natural process of growth, the gap must necessarily be wider between the summits of the twigs than lower down, and, instead of imagining " missing links," it is necessary to trace each separate branch as low down as possible, and to institute the comparisons between the lowest points that can be reached.

Where it is possible to make legitimate and unambiguous comparisons, the ethical and spiritual superiority of Old Testament thought has been convincingly demonstrated, and to the re-shaping and re-writing of the older history and the older traditions the Old Testament owes its permanent value.

Many comparisons of the effectiveness of dephlegmating columns have been made (see Sidney Young, Fractional Distillation, 1903).

The results serve to show the great value of Australian timbers, and the comparisons made with the typical timbers of many other countries emphasize the fact that the Australian woods are equal to any in the world for hardness, strength and durability.

That of the 8th of July 1842 was the first to be efficiently observed; and the luminous inducements to the construction of exact and comprehensive catalogues has been to elicit, by comparisons of those for widely separated epochs, the proper motions of the stars enumerated in them.

I did n't consciously model him on anyone, and I 'm desperately scrabbling here for comparisons.

Noise sidebands also have impact on these low frequency comparisons.

The report notes that current price comparisons are influenced by sterling 's appreciation (which makes overseas prices appear cheaper).

Family trees and subfamily sequence comparisons reveal the evolutionary relationships among receptors.

It 's fair to say that despite these comparisons, he was a more humorous character then both of these cult supremos combined.

Taxon sampling affects the relative rate estimate, with comparisons involving more closely related taxa resulting in a higher estimate.

But hard comparisons raise the issue of the truth of the trichotomy thesis, and it has been challenged in two ways.

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With careful comparisons, however, it is easy to find just the right tree to light up, decorate, and enjoy for the holidays.

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